Second Lieutenant A W Joyce [X550/1/81]
Tuesday 23rd
January 1917
2nd
Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, have welcomed back 10353 Sergeant A W Joyce
from England. However, he is no longer a sergeant. He was in England on a
course for officers and has returned as a Second Lieutenant. He has been posted
to D Company. Lieutenant-Colonel H S Poyntz has also rejoined the battalion and
resumed command.
6th Battalion,
at le Touret, near Neuve-Chapelle have been laying barbed wire in their front
line. Whilst doing this they captured two German prisoners who were patrolling.
Thus the Battalion have avenged Second Lieutenant Mattey and Sergeant Hunter
who seem to have been captured on patrol three days ago. At another time and in
another place the two might have been exchanged for the two Germans newly taken
prisoner but such things do not happen much in this war.
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